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Voodoo Vince is a Platform Game for the Xbox about a Voodoo Doll come to life. His creator is kidnapped by passable Evil Sorcerer and seventh grade dropout Kosmo the Inscrutable, and he must rescue her by adventuring through crazy lands that have been warped and corrupted by "Zombie Dust". Voodoo Vince must use his voodoo doll powers and hurt himself to hurt enemies and progress.

The game was never made backwards compatible with the Xbox 360, nor was it re-released for Xbox Live, because the game used some unique custom code that prevented porting over on that platform. However, the game received a remastered version for Xbox One and Windows 10, primarily handled by the game's original creator, Clayton Kauzlaric. It was released on April 18, 2017.

This video game provides example of:

Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Almost everywhere. Justified in that Vince is only 10 inches tall, and the pipes are only absurdly spacious to him.

Exploited Immunity: Pretty much uses this trope as a central game mechanic. You play as a voodoo doll, and your strongest attacks are 'voodoo' attacks that get charged up and unleashed, and are randomly chosen from the ones you've learned. They can range from getting halved by a bear trap to getting crushed by a satellite, but they all involve 'killing' Vince in order to insta-kill nearby enemies—Vince can do it all day, but the monsters he's killing would say otherwise.

Fetch Quest: The Bayou area, where Crawdad Jimmy sends you out to get ingredients for his soup. Played with to some extent, as it's revealed that he was really just trying to stall you until Kosmo arrived.

Also, in Roachfort, where Professor Ethel sends you to get the components for her balloon.

Guide Dang It!: The Trophy Room in Brusque Manor isn't very self-explanatory. In order to advance, you have to blow up the eggs that spawn imps. The flames that you use to light yourself on fire are too tall to reach, but you can fire yourself at one using the three crossbows on the floor. But doing that accomplishes nothing unless you have the dynamite that needs to be lit on fire. Where is the dynamite? On a tall shelf all the way across the room that requires careful platform jumping to reach.

Harmless Villain: Actually, Kosmo is quite harmful, it's more in spite of himself than anything.

There are several other instances in which this sort of thing happens, such as the Bomb power.

Meaningless Lives: Pretty much. You have a limited amount of lives, but the only consequence of losing them all is being spit back to the main menu, where you can just reload your last checkpoint (which in turns gives you three more lives to work with). Makes you wonder why they even bothered with lives in the first place.

Squashed Flat: Vince ends up running over the wrecked gas pump with a steamroller.

In several instances, this happens when Vince uses certain voodoo powers or ends up crashing into walls.

Stock Video Game Puzzle: Tumbler Room. You have to jump on floor buttons to rotate the walls on floors two and three so that the staircase will be open. The right combination allows you to reach higher floors.

A Storm Is Coming: One of Vince's powers has him getting swept up by a miniature tornado.

Toilet Humor: The "Laxative" power, which involves Vince taking a big swig and then having an outhouse drop over him.

Unexpected Gameplay Change: Quite a few, which prevents the game from getting too monotonous. For example, in the Rocket Lab level, there's a segment where you ride a plane through a tunnel. And one of the boss battles features Vince riding a rat which is always running forward.

Zombie Gait: Vince has to lay several zombies to rest. He must bring a light to the zombie crypt, all the while preventing it from getting taken by a bunch of imps. Once the light is in place, the zombies walk towards the crypts very slowly.

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